Famous Quotes & Sayings

The insurgents are still there, ... They still want to derail the democratic process. They still want to discredit the Iraqi government, so operations continue.

This is just how ridiculous and overreaching Democrats in Ohio have become." ()

Winston Churchill

Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.

After trying the latest fashion from New England, it seems many Iowa Democrats are grabbing their old Midwestern favorites again.

Boris Yeltsin

It's not democracy when a dictator is walking around with a sword in his hand. This is inadmissible.

William White

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal

Walid Jumblatt

independent Lebanon, a democratic Lebanon, with a good relationship with Syria.

Rand Paul

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

In many ways, it looks like the Democratic Party is trying to run the same play that propelled Mark Warner to prominence previously.

Noam Chomsky

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.

I'm running because of neglect of the community, neglect of the people, neglect of the democratic principles, total neglect. It's like he thinks he's a real-life king, and he has his knights around him. What about the rest of us?

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

I love Israel because Israel is a democratic country.

Jason Chaffetz

I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.

Ciaran Hinds

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

They have seven months to listen to us, to the voters, and to do the right thing. The people have spoken. This is what democracy looks like.

They'll tell us if we should rehabilitate the dome or demolish it and start over.

Paul Begala

There's nothing the Democrats would like more. He's terribly bright, but he's more far right than he is bright. He's become the embodiment of what most Americans hate about right wingers.

Francis Fukuyama

the totality of U.S. military interventions have not left lasting, meaningful democratic institutions.

The United States has long stood for expansion of global trade and consolidating democracy.

Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

John Podesta

When you look at your exit polls tomorrow, you will find Democrats did very well because the economy is not going in the right direction,

David Hoffman

We've received a lot of funding from Democratic and Republican administrations. It makes for some strange bedfellows.

Ehud Barak

What happened at the site was a test, and not a simple one, for democracy and a red light on the road to anarchy,

We are nearing three months on strike. We have a duty to send this to the membership for a vote. It's democracy at its finest. The strikers at Boeing have the final say on whether to keep striking or not.

We expected that with electoral democracy there would be a trickle down of positive effects. That did not happen.

Jim Nelson

We don't think it's a partisan issue. A handful of people wanted to kill it for some reason, and the rest of democracy had to suffer.

Ricardo Lagos

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

This is the Lord's gift to the Democratic Party. It is not every day that the Democratic Party gets to the right of the Republicans on national security.

This is a very positive turnaround for the political development of Mexico. Now, after all, we will be able -- late, very late -- to have a real democratic transition.